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...barring Carey from running again, federal monitor Kenneth Conboy said the Teamsters boss was a party to illegal schemes to funnel nearly $900,000 of union funds to the 1996 campaign in which he narrowly defeated challenger James P. Hoffa. The explosive ruling followed guilty pleas last September by three Carey aides, including Michael Ansara, a co-founder of the radical Students for a Democratic Society at Harvard in the 1960s, who admitted to helping shift $95,000 of union dues into Carey's coffers. Carey denies knowing about the illegal acts and vows to fight the disqualification ruling...
...Carey, who promised to clean up the long-corrupt Teamsters, has been deemed part of the problem. Judge Kenneth Conboy has disqualified Carey from a rerun of the disputed 1996 election that re-elected Carey over challenger Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., finding that Carey was involved in a plan to funnel union money into the coffers of his own campaign...
Those contributions have come under Justice Department scrutiny since Carey loyalists admitted in guilty pleas last month that among schemes to funnel money into Carey's re-election campaign in 1996, they tried to pull off a donation swap with Democrats--a swap that party officials entertained briefly, then apparently rejected. The new documents do not implicate the White House in the scotched deal, but they offer a rare glimpse into West Wing wooing of the Teamsters to guarantee its help in Clinton's re-election campaign. "Carey is not a schmoozer," states the 1995 memo to Ickes. "He wants...
...proposed by Carey aides, boiled down to this: the Teamsters would deliver $1 million to the party's state branches around the country, and in exchange the party would tap its donors to provide Carey with $100,000 for his re-election bid. The true purpose: to funnel cash from the Teamster treasury into Carey's campaign, an illegal act that had to be done circuitously to avoid detection. But when no Democratic money turned up in Carey's pocket, it looked like another crazy idea that went nowhere...
...Sigma sorority of Blooms-burg University was suspended, pending investigation for possible hazing violations after a pledge sister had to be hospitalized for alcohol poisoning. The pledge had "chugged" about a half bottle of vodka through a funnel type device, according to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education...